Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)

Since 2024, a specific car was sold in the US with two different names and badges, virtually identical except only one of them comes with CarPlay. Which one do you think sold more?

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-car-industry-a-b-tested-selling-the-same-car-with-and-without-carplay-and-the-results-are-not-shocking/

@evan @hkrn @adactio I posted about it here when the bet ended. It’s weird HN found it 4 years later https://a.wholelottanothing.org/on-a-long-bet/

Did you know if you rent a fancy house on the same lake you usually force everyone to camp out in the dirt at, your family vacation will be much more enjoyable?

@ai6yr I remember hearing the headlights were worth like $3k each and getting stolen in parking lots but I wondered who is out there needing late model Lamborghini headlights so badly?

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get.

https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm

I used to joke with friends that being on mastodon made me an ally of people on the spectrum but it was never more apparent until I was watching a youtube video with my spouse and the host took a break to go see a big steam locomotive visiting their town and I shouted “Wow! That’s the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014! It really is on tour! I heard about it on Mastodon weeks ago!”

Why are my allergies going nuts 24/7? Let me look up the pollen reports… jfc

This is 50mi away from me

@jalefkowit "is the AI company with us in the room, right now?"

oh no my cheeseburger changed its terms of service I better tell everyone

The other day I heard the phrase "the Epstein files should have already lead to Epstein trials by now" and I can't get it out of my head

It's wild to me that anyone takes CBS statements on face value. I've seen a bunch of articles about how CBS ratings have tanked since Colbert was taken off the air. Are we supposed to act shocked that perhaps maybe CBS was I dunno, lying about why Colbert had to be canceled?!

I don't mean to disparage the artists that show up at my annual local county fair, but it's an amusing parade of one-hit wonders from the 1980s and every year I go and enjoy musicians in their 60s playing my old favorite hits. In the past we've seen Smashmouth, Digital Underground, and 38 Special

This year, the headliner is C+C Music Factory who headlines my little town of 30,000 people playing a county fair with temporary rides and livestock competitions.

It made me laugh to see them as headliners in the America 250 White House extravaganza planned this summer.

Today I wrote about Kentucky's bourbon bubble bursting https://a.wholelottanothing.org/kentuckys-bourbon-problem/

The #1 most popular car color in 1994 in the USA was forest green and every day since we've been straying further away from the light

I love that Tesla updated the headlights and taillights on their older designs so now when you see a Model Y with new LEDs you can be sure the person driving it is a fucking moron that bought a Tesla in the past year despite *everything*

Mamdani isn’t just a fantastic progressive local leader, he’s a beacon for the entire nation.

My local election now has candidates with slogans line “I will improve services we already pay for” and “I’ll actually work hard for our community”

My local govt is famous for aloof weirdos who refused Biden infrastructure money because “Biden” was “evil” instead of fixing potholes with the funds.

I wrote up the whole story of how I was blocked from donating to the SPLC by my financial institution, thanks to Trump’s attempts to take down any group that monitors and reports on racist hate groups.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-trump-admin-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-bankrupt-the-southern-poverty-law-center/